The 60th Assembly District stretches From the Diamond Bar/Walnut area of Los Angeles County Down through parts of Northern Orange County to parts of Orange/Anaheim and takes in Chino Hills in San Bernardino County. FR contributor posted his views on the race in the OC blog. See it here. Bob Huff represents the area now. Currently there are three candidates mentioned and all will run as conservatives: Curt Hagman is the first term councilman from Chino Hills. Adam Aleman profiled the first term councilman in FR. Read it here.People in Chino Hills do like him and he … Read More

On Friday, I had a chance to take a few minutes with Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts. I found him to be a very engaging and articulate person with whom to speak. Below are some excerpts* from our interview…

Governor Romney was in Orange County where he appeared at two fundraising events — one an exclusive ‘pre-sell’ event at the Irvine home of businessman John Clarey, and the other a reception with hundreds of guests at the posh St. Regis Resort in Dana Point. We took along the "FlashCam" and so you can see all kinds of video — they are on the main page now — and I will try to post them into this Commentary in a bit…

AN INTERVIEW WITH MITT ROMNEY… Read More

Did anyone else notice that the pro-military counterprotests were actually much larger than the anti-war protests out in Washington DC over the weekend? Hard to find coverage, but the pictures and police reports were pretty clear.… Read More

On Friday, I had a chance to take a few minutes with Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the former Governor of Massachusetts. I found him to be a very engaging and articulate person with whom to speak. Below are some excerpts* from our interview…

Governor Romney was in Orange County where he appeared at two fundraising events — one an exclusive ‘pre-sell’ event at the Irvine home of businessman John Clarey, and the other a reception with hundreds of guests at the posh St. Regis Resort in Dana Point. We took along the "FlashCam" and so you can see all kinds of video — they are on the main page now — and I will try to post them into this Commentary in a bit…

AN INTERVIEW WITH MITT ROMNEY… Read More

Not really analysis that Jon would be expecting, simply…LET’S GO PITT!!!! As the former Vice President of the University of Pittsburgh College Republicans I could not resist antagonizing the blogosphere…forgive me Jon.

See ya in San Jose on Thursday.… Read More

This is not the first time I’ve weighed in on the San Diego Ethics Commission and the City of San Diego’s campaign laws that often surpass thoseof the California Political Reform Act in their regulatory ambition. Some are good, some are…well…just waiting for a lawsuit.

I was recently invited to a meeting of a potential SD City Council candidate. The individual is definitely running, yet he is not yet a candidate and the meeting in question was not a campaign meeting…because, you see,the city says so. You can’t announce your candidacy, raise money, or even put up a website until a year prior to the primary election…uhhh, not in SD anyway.

Kinda seems like a regulatory chill on the right of free speech to me.

On March 12, the Union-Trib’s Logan Jenkins penned a hilarious, must readpiece on the absurdity of it all, writing that"Franz Kafka would love this stuff." An excerpt:

For the next 2½ months, dozens of “closet candidates” for… Read More

On February 15th the Governor received a detailed assessment on California’s education system from Stanford’s Institute for Research on Education Policy & Practice. Hardly anyone reading the FlashReport will be surprised to learn that California’s schools are struggling. But some of the conclusions will surprise you. For example, the report concluded that California couldn’t spend its way out of the growing educational crisis – that better, more sensible management is more critical than additional dollars. Even school officials don’t think spending more money is the answer – in fact their top concern was not getting more money or a new program, it was the ability to fire bad teachers. Not a wholesale sweep, but just those who either can’t or simply don’t want to teach children anymore. “Tenure reform” is a hot-button issue for the teachers union – but instead of muscling up against it, they should embrace it and push for higher standards for teachers. In the long… Read More

On February 15th the Governor received a detailed assessment on California’s education system from Stanford’s Institute for Research on Education Policy & Practice. Hardly anyone reading the FlashReport will be surprised to learn that California’s schools are struggling. But some of the conclusions will surprise you. For example, the report concluded that California couldn’t spend its way out of the growing educational crisis – that better, more sensible management is more critical than additional dollars. Even school officials don’t think spending more money is the answer – in fact their top concern was not getting more money or a new program, it was the ability to fire bad teachers. Not a wholesale sweep, but just those who either can’t or simply don’t want to teach children anymore. “Tenure reform” is a hot-button issue for the teachers union – but instead of muscling up against it, they should embrace it and push for higher standards for teachers. In the long… Read More